Home Address
112 Hancock Street
Somerville, MA 02144

Christopher T. Lesniewski-Laas

http://lesniewski.org/
ctl at mit dot edu
Updated March 2008.
Work Address
32 Vassar Street 32-G996
Cambridge, MA 02139
+1 617 253 0004

Experience
MIT CSAIL, Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems 2001 - Present Cambridge, MA
  • Thesis advisor: M. Frans Kaashoek.
  • Research focus: computer systems, especially security of large-scale decentralized Internet systems.
  • Structured overlay routing using a social network to provide robustness against pseudonym attacks.
  • UIA: decentralized routing and naming in a zero-configuration, secure, ad-hoc network.
  • Alpaca: secure and flexible PKI based on a higher-order logical framework.
  • Other work: distributed and dynamic compact routing for the Internet; coroutine-based asynchronous I/O programming framework; game theory, economics, mechanism design, and reputation in decentralized systems; distributed Web caching; RSA acceleration using a commodity GPU.
  • Master's thesis: SSL Splitting and Barnraising: Cooperative Caching with Authenticity Guarantees.
  • Instructor, Computer Systems Engineering (6.033), 2003-2005.
Permabit 2001 Cambridge, MA
  • Developed highly available, robust, secure, scalable data storage system based on commodity hardware.
Microsoft Research 2000 Redmond, WA
  • Cryptographic protocol design for the I-Campus Secure Successor to the MIT Card project.
SensAble Technologies, Inc. 1999 Cambridge, MA
  • R&D: hardware and software development for the PHANToM haptic interface.
MIT AI Lab, Mathematics and Computation 1998 Cambridge, MA
  • Studied randomly generated amorphous computers. Advisors: Hal Abelson, Gerry Sussman.
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997 - Present Cambridge, MA
  • Doctoral program in Computer Science, 2003 - present.
  • M. Eng. and B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, June 2003.
  • B.S. Mathematics (Minor in Physics), June 2001.
  • 4.9 / 5.0 undergrad GPA, 5.0 / 5.0 grad GPA.
  • Topics: algorithms, complexity, compilers, digital design, computer architecture, cryptography, software design, acoustics, probability, algebra, quantum+statistical physics, general relativity, economics.
Cohasset High School 1992 - 1997 Cohasset, MA
  • Valedictorian, early graduation, Harvard Extension School, Center for Talented Youth (CTY).
Societies
Skills
  • Languages: Python, Haskell, C, C++ STL, Java, Perl, Javascript, LISP, Matlab, VHDL, Postscript, various assembly, SQL, XML, HTML, CSS, LaTeX, GLSL, LF, Intercal, French, Mandarin Chinese
  • Unix development: Make, GCC, Subversion, svk, CVS, VIM, X11, testsuites, Debian, Solaris, etc.
  • Network/system programming: TCP/IP, sockets, SSL/TLS, Kerberos, asynchronous, threads, load balancing, scheduling, consistency, kernels, compilers, JIT, VMM, RDBMS, DB-driven web apps, etc.
  • Digital design: Xilinx FPGA development tools, use of oscilloscope, logic analyzer, datasheets, etc.
  • Hobbies: bicycling, cooking, karate, SCUBA, travel, DDR, skydiving, urban subterranean exploration.